David Profumo

David John Profumo, 6th Baron Profumo ( born October 20, 1955 in London, United Kingdom) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Profumo is the son of British politician John Profumo and actress Valerie Hobson.

After his education at Eton College (1968-1973), he graduated in 1977 at Magdalen College, Oxford with a Bachelor and a Master of Arts. Then Profumo was Assistant Master of English at Eton College ( 1978), at The Royal School in Shrewsbury ( 1978-1979 ) and as a lecturer in English language at King's College London ( 1981-1983).

From 1982 to 1984 he worked as an editor at The Fiction Magazine. Starting in 1985, Profumo's first published literary works, including a first novel and a collection of short stories. Profumo is a passionate angler and engages in his works often maritime topics. For his novel Sea Music, he received the 1989 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Between 1987 and 1995, he worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

Since 1997 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

2001 Profumo survived a helicopter crash on the Russian Kola Peninsula, where he remained for a expedition of The Field Magazine.

In 2006, his book Bringing Down the House appeared: A Family Memoir of the political overthrow of his father during the Profumo affair. The book was written with the support of his father. Profumo also drew back on the diaries of his deceased mother.

Since 1979 he has been married to Helen Fraser. Profumo lives with his wife and three children in London and Perthshire.

Works

• Sea Music. London, Secker and Warburg, 1988
• The Weather in Iceland. London, Picador, 1993
• The Blind Man Eats Many Flies, in: Foreign Exchange, edited by Julian Evans. London, Sphere, 1985
• In Praise of Trout. London, Viking, 1989
• The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing Literature. with Graham Swift, London, Picador, 1985
• Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir. John Murray Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0719566080